I am right and preg_match is wrong.

I'm trying to extract a value from some text (scraped from a web site)
using a regular expression and It's not playing ball.

Here's the text (with the value I want in bold)

<span id="DetailsCurrentBidValue" class="sectiontitle"><b>GBP 49.99 </b></span>

Here is my regular expression:

'#id="DetailsCurrentBidValue".+\s([\d]+\.[\d]+)#i'

However, when I change my regular expression to this (remove the '\s'):

'#id="DetailsCurrentBidValue".+([\d]+\.[\d]+)#i'

It returns '9.99.
It should return 49.99

Any ideas? could this be an encoding issue?
Thanks!

 

This sucking of others sites might be wrong, neither preg_match, nor you...
You can try something like this : #id="DetailsCurrentBidValue"[^\d]+([\d]+\.[\d]+)#

BUT!!! Be careful. As soon as there'll be some number in 'class' attribute, it'll fail.

 

Thanks very much.
For the record, I'm not leeching content. I'm building an eBay sniper.

I really appreciate your help.

Page code:
<span id="DetailsCurrentBidValue" class="sectiontitle"><b>US $44.00 </b></span>

Tried Regex:
'#id="DetailsCurrentBidValue".+[^\d]([\d]+\.[\d]+)#i'

Also Tried:
'#id="DetailsCurrentBidValue".+\$([\d]+\.[\d]+)#i'

Thanks